They arrived at the camping parking lot, where there stood a dark-skinned man, probably in his late thirties. He has dark, clean bread and black short hair. He was now wearing mountain brown boots, dark green shorts, a light blue shirt, and a dark blue vest. He is their contact, agent Joseph Smith, or Joe for short.

PeaceStar gets out from Jazz before looking at him. “What's with the getup?” she asked confusedly.

“I was having father-daughter time here when you called.” Agent Smith said.

“Oh, is she…?” PeaceStar asks gently when a young girl, about the same age as Elena, comes behind Agent Smith. She has dark skin like her father, while she has black curly hair with a pink-green hair band. She also had a camping outfit with bright blue-purple colors.

“I tried.” Agent Smith said.

“O-kay…” PeaceStar said while looking at Two Autobots in vehicle forms. “Does she…?”

“I told Jessica everything when Gaia passed away. My condolences.” Agent Smith said respectfully. “She was a very kind…person.”

“Thank you,” PeaceStar said, smiling gently. Then she turns to look at the vehicles. “All clear!”

In this, Elena came out of the truck before it transformed into Optimus Prime. Elena was now wearing a black top, black pants, and black boots. Jazz also transformed into his robot form.

“Wow, you weren't kidding, dad.”

“Jess…remember what we discussed…”

“Yeah, yeah. No holding the urges of the past.”

“No, the other one.”

“Oh… respect.” Joe rolled his eyes at that.

Elena looked a bit worried. She and Jessica were school friends, but they hadn't seen each other since… She started to live with Autobots. She actually tried to hide behind Optimus.

PeaceStar shared their coordinates with agent Smith. According to him, it's just outside the camping area, so humans don't usually go there, but it was a good thing to evacuate the area just in case. Sadly, there's only a walking path nearby, so Optimus and Jazz had to walk as robots there as well. Once it was clear, they all started to walk in that direction.

PeaceStar,  Elena, and Jessica walk ahead of the group while Joe walks with Optimus and Jazz.

“How has she cooperated?” Joe asked, referring to Elena.

“She mostly has stayed near the base, but according to PeaceStar she is… functioning,” Optimus said.

“Although there are times she gets how you humans say… blue.” Jazz said.

“How?”

“Mostly remains quiet and stays alone. In the worst case, she said she should have died.”Optimus said, feeling sad about it.

“But after that, Optimus picks her up on his shoulder and she calms down,” Jazz said.

“Sounds like she is still passing through some traumas,” Joe said. “But she has recovered as well. I can see why Gaia asked me to leave her in your care, Prime.”

“I… don't understand, Agent Smith,” Optimus said.

“Normally Elena should've been given to her relatives because she was sixteen, but Gaia insisted she would stay with you guys, even before she passed away, she asked that same thing from me,” Joe said.

“Huh… I didn't know that.” Jazz said. “How did Elena take it?”

“She… didn’t accept no for an answer,” Optimus said as he started to remember the time when it was decided that Elena would stay with them.

“No!”

“Elena, stop doing this! You know how the system goes”

“You can't take me away from them!”

“Don't you want to be with your family? You always told us how wonderful they are.”

“I'M SUPPOSED TO BE DEATH!!!... If I go, their lives will be in danger. So, if I can be with them, I might just as well be dead!”

“Elena, you know, life with us won't be the same. There's even a chance your life could be at risk.”

“I don't care…  I don't want to lose you. I love you guys…”

“Optimus… Optimus?”

“Oh, sorry. I was in my thoughts” Optimus said as he walked further ahead”.

“What would that be?” Agent Smith wondered.

“I have no idea, man.” Jazz said.

*****

Meanwhile with girls who were walking ahead.

“So we're looking for her sister, Miss Star?” Jessica confirmed.

“My little sister, yes,” PeaceStar confirms. “And you can call me Peace.”

“Sweet!”

“Funny. That's my little sister's name.” PeaceStar chuckles.

“Sweet…Star?” Elena asked.

“Yeah. She got it because she is such a hugger and… what do you humans call a little girl who is all innocent and cute?”

“Oh, that would be my cousin's daughter, Sofia,” Elena said. “My Tia Alma almost passed out, when she asked where babies came from.” Jessica laughed at that.

“Yeah, I can see why…” PeaceStar said. “It took me ten cycles to explain SweetStar about Sparkmates and Conjunx Endura.”

“The What?”

“The romantic stuff,” Elena said.

“Ohh!”

“Yeah. That's what GaiaStar said.”

“Speaking of your family, Elena…” Jess asked carefully. “Do they…?”

“Think I'm dead, Yes,” Elena said calmly.

“Don't you miss them?”

“It's better this way,” Elena said clearly. “Better one unfound body than twenty-one real ones.”

“You really think they would go that far,” PeaceStar asked.

“Considering they burned the place, made it look like an accident, left no trace of them in the crime scene, and before that, they sent one of them to kill me, I'm pretty sure they don't want to be found and I'm now their loose end, which means everyone I know could be in danger if they know I exist,” Elena said.

“You got me with that loose end part,” PeaceStar said.

“And…when did you meet these guys?” Jess asked while pointing to the Autobot behind them.

“How about I tell after we find Peace's “sweet” little sister?”

“Want me to bring a large strawberry milkshake?” Jess smiles.

“You know me so well, Jess.”

“Of course, it was the only way to get you to open up about stage fright from a talent show in middle school,” Jess remembers. “And I still think you should've at least earned a silver medal.”

“Jess!”

“What? You dance, you sing, and especially; you have the touch.”

“The touch?” PeaceStar asks.

“Jess, if you're gonna start by cooking and baking they won't understand it. Robots don't eat food.” Elena reminds her friend before she can say anything.

“Okay… but you also have it with animals,” Jess said. “Some reason they come close at you.”

“No, they DonaAaah…!” Elena suddenly shouts when something flies on her shoulder and flaps its wings. She quickly picks it up with both hands and it turns out to be a local bird.

“See!”

“That doesn't count, Jess!”

“Elena, are you alright?” Optimus asked. Agent Smith and Jazz came behind as they heard her yell.

“I'm fine. I was just surprised, that's all.”

“I think it did too,” PeaceStar said, pointing toward where it came from. There was a wide opening with landing trails where there stood the cybertronian ship. It wasn't as big as the Autobot ship Ark, at best two or three bots could fit in there.

Optimus and Jazz took their gun out, just in case as they approached the ship. PeaceStar, Elena, Jessica, and Agent Smith stood behind them. The ship's door opens as the cool air comes out. From it comes a tiny robot girl. Her anatomy is similar to PeaceStar's, with star emblems on her forehead, chest, and waist, and the same helm- and leg color, except she is smaller with heart audio receptors, light blue and pink armor that looks like a dress, and heart-shaped knee joints. The robot girl yawns cutely as she has just woken up before she sees Optimus and Jazz.

“She looks… cute,” Elena said.

Before you knew it, the robot girl walked to Optimus and hugged his leg. “Yep, that's SweetStar, " PeaceStar confirmed.

“That's so adorable!” Jessica said while taking pictures with her smartphone.

“You know you can’t post those.” Agent Smith reminds her. Meanwhile, SweetStar goes to hug Jazz’s leg.

“Sweet! Sweet, where are you?”  a female voice from the ship was heard before another bot came out. She was as big as Autobots and wore pink-white armor and a transparent pink visor. Optimus and Jazz recognize her.

“Arcee?”

The female Autobot is surprised to see them and runs to hug them. Both of them weren't much surprised. She either is like that or she may have got it from SweetStar. “I'm so happy to see you guys! I was afraid we'll be the only ones left.”

“Well, we kinda were out for thousands of years when we crash-landed here.” Jazz explained.

“Thousands?” Arcee was shocked hearing that.

“Yes, but as you can see we are not alone.” Optimus said while turning to look at PeaceStar, Elena, Agent Smith and Jessica. Seeing Arcee's surprised look, Elena looks away. Because of her cyborg look it will give unpleasant reactions sooner or later.

When SweetStar saw her, she suddenly came closer and hugged her. But it seemed to be different compared to what she did with Optimus and Jazz. She was hugging like someone who doesn't want her to leave or vanish. Elena was all confused as she gently moved her hand over her to hug back.

“Sweet dear, as much as you're a hugger, don't squeeze her to half.” PeaceStar jokes.

SweetStar looks at her direction with a pouty face.

“Now that's a SweetStar I remember.” Jazz said jokingly.

“Sir… is she… are those…?”

“We'll explain everything at base.” Optimus said. “We better leave before locals get curious.”

In this they all started to walk back to the parking area. Little did they know, from one tree stood Laserbeak observing and sending images and audio to the Decepticons.